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...I'm not sure whether to be flattered or just wtf stunned that I got name-checked in that text. But Suspect Bucket has summoned me, and I answer the call. Real talk: I live in a pretty agrarian area in Virginia; like it's a fair-sized city (with its share of food trucks from bbq to gourmet grilled cheese to cupcakes) but you go 15 miles outside the city and it's farms. Right now it's the time the farmer's markets should be opening, but thanks to fact that our governor used to be a doctor and is not a complete idiot, ain't nothing opening until at least June (and probably later). What do? Make a fried rice/lo mein truck, because not a single Chinese take-out place is open or will open soon due to racist fucks who think that just looking at an Asian person will give you the 'roni. Hook up with local farmers who have nowhere to sell their stuff. Have a constantly rotating menu of fried rice/noodle options with whatever veggies are in season/surplus. Have my cheerful round-and-blue-eyed self serving it up, not one of those scary Asian/brown people. Same idea could be applied to a salad/soup truck, really. All the grocery stores/supermarkets are open, but their salad bars are shut down. Get stuff from local farmers struggling to find an outlet. Have a chalkboard on what's available, build your own salad with whatever's in stock that week. Appeals to both city hipsters who want farm-to-table/organic/locavore, and the rural hippie folk who come into town who miss going to the farmer's market every Saturday. Bonus if you can make Brunswick stew for the good ol' boys comin' into town for supplies. You park that truck outside a Lowe's or Home Depot or Wal-mart with a vat of Brunswick stew, and you'd clean up pretty good. ...am I doing this right? I can certainly think of some more insane fusion concepts if it wasn't 3:15 am, but if I had the capital to get a truck, that would be my cocktail napkin plan. edit: just remembered a goon asking how to add some zest to their grilled cheese sandwiches over in General Questions. In the spirit of the thread (I think), the suggestion of putting kimchi on grilled cheese fits. Personally, that sounds icky, but I could see douchey hipsters going for kimchi grilled cheese, especially since one of our most popular trucks is the fancy grilled cheese one. JacquelineDempsey fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Apr 26, 2020 |
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al-azad posted:Make It Thai Hot: it’s just a generic food truck but to your impress your friends and make you feel like a real man you tell me 1-10 and that’s how many grams of raw bird chili seeds I dump on your meal.  I continue my small business of making hot sauce (which I can no longer sell at the farmers' market), and just sell, like, french fries or something simple. The allure is which sauces you get to dip them in and brag about with machismo. $2 extra for my sweet & hot, $4 extra for Nashville, $6 extra for the one made with Carolina Reapers I grew myself. Use my silk-screening skills to make stupid t-shirts for people who want to brag about it for another $15. I like the cut of your jib, friend.
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Scientastic posted:All the food is cooked by electrically power, and when you order, you have to jump on the attached exercise bike and provide the electricity to cook your own food  https://rockthebike.com/fender-blender-bike-blenders/ Kinda sorta in practice already with smoothies? I've actually seen one (not by this company, it was home-grown) in my city. But you don't have to hop on the bike yourself, you pay a person to do it. So, $5 if you DIY, $10 if you make Enrique do it for you.
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I'm just gonna rip off the entire 2020 chickencheese thread for the menu. We had, what, Greek, vegetarian, vegan, Italian, "traditional" Philly, Asian, etc? Even my ugly rear end dumpster fire made entirely from food bank scraps. Just a whole truck of chickencheese fusion. 10% off if you mention stairs.
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Suspect Bucket posted:I'd eat all of these ideas. I was playing with an idea stolen from japanese grocery carts/every fruit and veg stall ever. Get an efficient little truck, and set up one day weekly farmers markets in food deserts, in church parking lots and community areas. Sell fresh fruit and veg that you can't get from Dollar General. Steal the idea from Publix where they demo a recipe, give out samples, and sell all the ingredients bundled together. Take EBT Our farmer's markets and co-ops teamed up with an organization that does that EBT thing, even more so. If you're using your SNAP/EBT card to buy fresh produce, you get essentially buy-one-get-one-free. It's loving awesome and one of the many reasons I'm gutted that the markets are closed, especially the one in our food desert. It operated on Tuesday afternoon-evenings right by a school and right on the bus line, so people could get off work, pick up their kids, buy some fresh healthy produce and then hop the bus home. Everybody should check this out. https://leapforlocalfood.org/healthy-food-programs/snap-program/ So yeah, park that truck and get to work! BUT, that's not the point of this thread. We're trying to appeal to douchey hipsters. Well, with alcohol laws being massively relaxed here thanks to the virus (you can get beer or wine delivered or to go now), I've got an idea. Get an old ice cream truck, ride around my neighborhood playing an awful MIDI version of "Gin and Juice". Sell $8 wine Slurpees, $5 PBR granitas ($10 if you want an IPA/sour/lambic/whatever the trend is these days) for the hipsters, etc.
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Considering what's available while the world ransacks its supermarkets, I'm again stealing ideas from the forums: a 70's themed truck, featuring abominations straight from the AFP thread. Aspic Bites, done all cutesey in muffin tins. Along that line, Bloody Mary Jell-O shots (if you can even find celery-flavored Jell-O anymore? gently caress it, we'll make our own ~artisanal~ Jell-O) Casserole Roulette: we're not even gonna tell you what's in it, you gotta buy one for $14 and try it for yourself. Everything is sourced locally from the Dollar General.
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Someone in another thread said how eerie it was hearing no traffic except ambulance sirens... and an ice cream truck jingle. Multicultural "ice cream" truck. We got traditional milkshakes, lassi, horchata, boba teas, muthafuckin' egg creams for displaced NYers who've had to hunker down in other states... summer's coming here in the northern hemisphere. and with all the restaurants dying, especially the mom'n'pop "ethnic" places, hipsters are gonna want their fix of cool dairy drinks. All you need is refrigeration and a blender, super low overhead compared to a regular food truck. Still working on a cutesey/douchey hipster name, I'm open to suggestions. (I also really want an egg cream now.)
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Liquid Communism posted:Go full southern. Name it Gravy Train, dress up the truck with a cowcatcher and such, and play a MIDI version of Ozzy's "Crazy Train" so no one can un-hear it.
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 I legit made this for my husband's birthday one year, because two of his favorite foods in this world are tacos and hot dogs, and so we had this comic printed out and stuck on our fridge. The Macatacahodo 360 is surprisingly tasty and totally would've sold like gangbusters to the hipsters when this comic came out in 2008 or whenever. If I show him that video he'll be at the Kroger lickety-split, I guarantee it. (Though I'm also not sure about the mayo schmear)
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gegi posted:So what makes a burger Lawful Evil? It comes out exactly like a Big Mac. Edit: or it looks like Mayor McCheese JacquelineDempsey fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Dec 14, 2020 |
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